153rd AW: 2013 MAFFS training

A Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 from the 153rd Airlift Wing, after following a U.S. Forest Service lead plane, performs a training mission which includes water drops near the Medicine Bow National Forest, May 10, 2013. The Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd AW held its annual MAFFS certification and re-certification training. When it is determined MAFFS is needed, the National Interagency Fire Center through U.S. Northern Command requests the Department of Defense's U.S. Air Force resources. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Capt. Rusty Ridley)

153rd AW: 2013 MAFFS training

A Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 from the 153rd Airlift Wing, after following a U.S. Forest Service lead plane, performs a training mission which includes water drops near the Medicine Bow National Forest, May 10, 2013. The Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd AW held its annual MAFFS certification and re-certification training. When it is determined MAFFS is needed, the National Interagency Fire Center through U.S. Northern Command requests the Department of Defense's U.S. Air Force resources. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Capt. Rusty Ridley)

153rd AW: 2013 MAFFS training

A Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 from the 153rd Airlift Wing, after following a U.S. Forest Service lead plane, performs a training mission which includes water drops near the Medicine Bow National Forest, May 10, 2013. The Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd AW held its annual MAFFS certification and re-certification training. When it is determined MAFFS is needed, the National Interagency Fire Center through U.S. Northern Command requests the Department of Defense's U.S. Air Force resources. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Capt. Rusty Ridley)

153rd AW: 2013 MAFFS training

A Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 from the 153rd Airlift Wing, after following a U.S. Forest Service lead plane, performs a training mission which includes water drops near the Medicine Bow National Forest, May 10, 2013. The Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd AW held its annual MAFFS certification and re-certification training. When it is determined MAFFS is needed, the National Interagency Fire Center through U.S. Northern Command requests the Department of Defense's U.S. Air Force resources. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Capt. Rusty Ridley)

2013 MAFFS training

Two C-130 Hercules aircraft from the 145th Airlift Wing, North Carolina Air National Guard and 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard loaded with a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System taxi out for the first mission of MAFFS training for certification. This year the annual training is hosted by the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, at the Cheyenne Regional Airport, Cheyenne, Wyo., May 7, 2013. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Patricia Findley/Released)

2013 MAFFS training

U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Andy Huneycutt, loadmaster for the 156th Airlift Squadron, North Carolina Air National Guard, meets Lt. Gen. William A. Etter, 1st Air Force commander and Col. Dennis Grunstad, assistant adjutant general-Air, Wyoming Air National Guard, during the annual Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System training for certification. Chief Huneycutt is one of two survivors of MAFFS 7, the 145th Airlift Wing C-130 Hercules aircraft that crashed while fighting forest fires in South Dakota, July 1, 2012. The 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, hosts the 2013 MAFFS training at the Cheyenne Regional Airport, Cheyenne, Wyo., May 7, 2013. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Patricia Findley/Released)